U+11281 "𑊁" Multani Letter I Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑊁

U+11281 "𑊁" Multani Letter I is a glyph representing the vowel "i" in the Multani script, an historical writing system used primarily in the Punjab region of modern-day Pakistan and India for writing the Saraiki and related languages. This character belongs to the Multani block within Unicode, which was added in version 8.0 of the standard to support the ancient abugida descended from the Brahmi script. As a vowel sign, the Multani Letter I appears as an independent character in text, distinct from its diacritic form, and is used to represent the short vowel sound /i/ in syllables. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally encode the cultural heritage of the Multani script, which was historically employed for trade and administration but has largely fallen into disuse in modern times.

General Properties

Code Point U+11281
Version Added 8.0
Name Multani Letter I
Block Multani
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑊁
HTML Hex Encoding 𑊁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x8A 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDE81
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011281
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\ude81

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Multani
Script Extensions Multani
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter